Programming Camera

[Team1605]

I am programming the camera for the first time. I would only like to program the camera for a image for assistance for the the driver. Help needed....

[notmattlythgoe]

I am programming the camera for the first time. I would only like to program the camera for a image for assistance for the the driver. Help needed....

The only thing you'll need to do is run the camera configuration tool provided wit h the frc utilities. That will set the IP address of your camera and it will appear on the dashboard.

[Team1605]

okay thank you for the help...

[Chadfrom308]

We are having it where our camera tells us if we are lined up for a shot and will put a green border around the image on our computer

If you want to do something like that, use NI Vision assistant. It is very helpful and pretty easy to understand

[Team1605]

Well I did all the setup/configuration needed for the axis camera but there is no image coming up on the frc dashboard. Also i want to program the camera to look for the target and position the robot accordingly(in autonomous). how can i do that? I am programming in java(netbeans)

[Chadfrom308]

Make sure the IP address of the camera is correct. If I can remember clearly it should be like 10.te.am.11 (I would double check if I were you)

As for auto aiming, that's pretty tricky to perfect. You have to first find the goal, which you do by putting a ring of LEDs around the camera, then looking for that color in the NI vision assistant. Its more complex, but also pretty straightforward.

Look at this page (http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/3120/m/8731/l/91395-c-java-code)

It is straight from first and wpilib

The basic steps after you find the target is to find the distance then program your robot to move that distance (normally with a PID)

You also want to do all your processing on the dashboard. It is much faster than the crio and processing images. Also get a good laptop, that also helps a lot too

[yash101]

are you planning on processing/advanced functions or just regular camera feed? Both said, you could write an OpenCV application for just a camera viewer and that will allow you to resize the view, etc.!

[Team1605]

Make sure the IP address of the camera is correct. If I can remember clearly it should be like 10.te.am.11 (I would double check if I were you)


I did check and it is correct but it still won't display on the FRC dashboard

[Ultracrepidate]

Have you tried pinging the camera using command prompt?

[Greg McKaskle]

It was mentioned in other threads, but be sure to click the enable button next to the image display.

Greg McKaskle